Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1878, Page 3

SUYDAM “The Bogus Wife of the Land-Shark Discovered in Detroit. _A,“s:[‘akeu in Charge by One of Our Chicago Detectives. She Talks Freely Concerning Her Busi® pess Relations with Suydam; But Denies Baving Signed More than One Document for Him, ke Torger Himself Declines to Make a Statement. Srectal Dispateh 1o The Tridune. Drreorm, Mich., Aug. 10.—Kitty Gibling, alias £ was arrested on a charge of being im- Y ied with Abraliam Saydam In land swin- Q. Atter Suydam’s arrest in New York, ‘Seavey, of Chicazo, learned that the ‘womsn was fn this city, avd telegraphed Friday gor ber arrest and detention. Detective Stacler yos assioned the case, and traced Kitty 1 Xo. 109 Macomb strect, but satisfied pimsell with watching the premises until dsy, when Detective Hartman, of Chi- fl_,,," arrived With 2 reguisition from Govervor of Tllinois for her arrest. Hart- o provided himsel{ with a decoy letier, and, {mpersonating 3 messenger, visited the house, where he was met at the door by Kittie herself, Soeskmowledzed her identity, and was at once grrested by Stadler; who was stationed at a con- verient point. When ~onfronted with the war- qant for her arrest on the charze of forgery and perjurs;Bittie agreed to return to Chicago, and, o epare her the huwmilistion of being Inked p dn_the station-house, she twas cscorted to the Michizan Exchange, where she remaived in Hartmaw’s custody until 9:30 to- gicht, aud then took the Jfidhigan Central for Colcago. Inibe interview with TmE TRIDUNE corre- oondent at the train the fair prisoncr stated bt she met Suydam Jan. 1, 157, being intro- Coced to hitm at the Burdick House. She was there employed ata hair store. Being poor and ‘guable to properdy care for her child, havinz been ‘married and divorced when 15, she consented to Tive with Suydam, and did live with him openly 2t the Burdick Uonse, theu at 282 Wabash svenuc, then at H. P. Hateh's, at Englewood. Suvdam fntroduced lher to his friecds 35 Mrs. Surdam. Subsequentiy she Jeamed Bt Supdsm bad = wife. That lady 20 ber brother went to Chicago to sec Kittie, and the latter left her paramour in Septem- ber last, coming to this city in Jwe isst.. When asked _if she ever signed anv deeds for Suydam, Kittie re- plied that she did sign one. She went to Flagg's office with Suydam and found Mr. Jobnson there. Johuson knew she was not Suydam’s wife. He banded Suvdam a paper and be afixed ‘i slemature to it, and then be told him to have biswifesiem it. She asked him what name to iz, and be replied “Kittle Surdam.” After she hsd signed her name, Johnson wanted totake her acknowledgment, and, when asked concerning the purport of the paper, said it was aquit-claim deed. She had no idea what such edocument was, but signed it, as they said it wasonly 2 mere form, and would not, go out of Johnson’s possession. That was the only docu- ment she ever sizned for or with Suydam. Kittie denicd that she had ever signed the mmeof Gertrnde Meredith Suydam, the law- ful wife of her accomplice, and denied the foreery of orders for ruilroad passes, She de- zied that ehe ever visited New York with Suy- &, She stated that she bad no money or 1riends, and futended to 20 to Chicago, tell all ehe ke about tne whole aflair, and place her- #ll i the hands of those administering justice. The prisoner is 2 deciGedly pretty woman of %5, of tall and commanding fizure, intelli- gent and refined in manoers snd speech, a ready conversationalist, keen, quick-witted. aud evidently a thorough woman of the world. Her right, name is Katle Gilbey. Her father was formerly a saloon-keeper on Woodward avenne, this city. A’:nhlm Suydam, the real-estate shark, oc- <apies Cell No. 53 in the County Jail, and, bav- 1ue kisd time toreflect. has nothing more to say. Hehas made no cffort 10 secure buil, and will 2ot do s0, 35 his examiuation takes place Tues- day, and bie expects then to be discharged from astods. A good avy people called to sec * lim yesterday,—men who scemed to be ac- qainted with him. Some were probably vic- 1ims. and otbers those who had knowingly or uwittinely gided him in his swind- lng trapssctions. It is said that il the parties duped will only prosecute, Wenty cases can be made out agninst kim fo Chicazo alone. Thus far less than half adoren have decided to do their share toward g¥ing him his deserts. Suydam himself pre- tends 1o be ignorant of the charees. It would beabsurd 1o expect him to confess his erimes. Tethebetrays considerable ausiety to know ¥hat there.is abead. A TRIBUNE reporter at- tempted to interview him again yesterday even- fnz. but Suydam tricd to pump the reporter, The conversation was, therefore, unsatisfactory o both sides. He wanted to know if Kittic Giling had been arrested, and. when 10ld that she had been, he said he couldu’t see what toes had avainst her. *Sigming deeds as your wife” remarked the reporter. Suydam kept his mouth shut. Constable Bartman went 10 Detroit after the woman Friday night, aud ‘Wl arrive here with her this morning. OTHER ARRESTS ARE ALSO TO BE MADE,— tbree or four in tis city, and Lo or three down East. Who these allezed confederates are is Unkuown. As stated vesterday in THE TRIB- INE, eversthing fo Suydam’s abstracts and feeds was so regular that be must have bad as- Eistauce in their preraration, and it is his as sistants. doubtiess, whom the detective are now “8ier. Many of the names in the decds, and of the attorneys, in fact, were fictitior .notably rles R. iiawley, whose name_appears more oanr other. He cannot be found. Among O Dapers in the case of Payne v Jimmings,—the latter having exchansed West nia 1and obtained in a trade with Supdam for 2 house and lot. in- thi: cty and some sub- in.f“" property belonwing 1o Mrs, Payne,—tried B the Circuit Court before Judze Roger nafidavic of Suydam, iu_which he swears 1o 1n 1867, he was living in New York. ~Haw- 4T 8ad vot acquired Lis incerest in tne land at jit time. Interrozated as 1o where Havley O, the reply was: ¢ Tie lives in New York 5 Jean't tell just where iis Lousc is. le o 2 dealer in réal estate. He had an oflice i Tl{xe city when T was there—an oftice w Trinity Buildiug, Broadway.” No_ such man 'fin_nns Hawley had an oflice in tue Trinity wilding for twenty years, and, as Pinkerton uot been abie to find him after the most o ougl rearch, nor the New York and Chicago H’fl;mfes, it is vretty certamn tnat Chartes R. ley {samyth. In the wtervicw with a re- rter Friday, Susdam sald he had no interest H ¢ West Virainia Jands, merely acting as at- ey for others. In the afidavit above re- 5 0 hie swears that he has an intcrest in the Exvm“' There 2re many things in regard to he dam which cannot be gotten at just now, as 1o cparties who are prosecuting bim are unwilling 19 Showall their carde. A part will undoubte o COme out at the preliminary examivation,— Hioueh to make out a case which will warrant Jobeinz hield to await the action of the Grand ‘:):;H;:; wml»n an trial comes off the exvos- e 0 5 kS 0 the sharpest kind of tricks is A repurter having learued that ME. GEORGE W. GIBBS, g;of the leading vouny lawyers of this city, b b2d some dealings with Suydam, in other "% and had favested fn West Virgini. lands - der bis suidance. cailed upon him to find out bat his transactions had been. p G It came across Suydam.” “sdid Mr. kS b3, ia the latter part o1 1574, or the early _Dartof 1875: There was some properivin my taree theu which he proposed o buy. it was ued at $125.000, for which he was' to give n d. i refused to enter into any bargain with m.',’* Unless be would put wo §2,000 13 earnest &nhex. Mesaid that_the man whom he repre- m‘fl‘l. 3r. Coarles R. Hawley, of New Yorky Ly Seatleman of considerable wealtn—worth g Dol a million; that be, Suydam, had tame here, bad no cash, and con- . &3uently, could mot _ put up the ,W He £aid, however, that he would put up 3,000 acres of land fn my name, and ‘3,000 e b Ihat of a pentleman who an -s‘}ofl- s Wwith me i busiuess, as earnest on 2 nivety- y contract. To this [ agreed, and eave hin 5 coutract, for the threc months, He could not perform his part of ft—that is, he was tinable to but ub the cash which was vart of the consid- {.,muou. and, of course, the coutract was roken and the laud forfeited. I held the title for about a year without paving much attention 1o ~ the _matter. In February of 157, I went down to West Vir- £inia and spent a month there, aud investizated the land thoroughly. | found that it was nally 210,000-acre tract, worth at least S10 auacre. Itlay in Mason, Cavell, and Putnam i‘ounnu, 20d was known as the Hawley tract. twni originally granted to Georee Washingion In 1752 for services rendered during the Frouch end Indian wars, and you can still see the old monuments which show where the surveyors rau the lines. 1 aw convinced, from the ex- awination I made then, that mv title s a good oneyand that it would 'stand the test. The remaiuing 4,000 acres of this tract he traded off to Minme L. Cummings, and ot some money,—~somethine like $10,000 in cash. and somc property in Omaha, which was worth, per- hape, 320,000 uver and ‘above the mortgage. I think that that was a fair trade on his part, avd that the title was a square one; but that, when he saw how easily money could be made out of these lauds, he went into the busi- :iu:ss and began forging 'letters until he made eeds covering about the eatire State of West V.trfl'lnh. He is a smarter man. 1 think, in his way of dolug business, than ever Turner was, It is not impossivle that he may have been with that mentleman, for he cafie here from the southern part of the State. He bus ulso oper- ated toa considerable extent on LANDS IN COOK COUNTY in the way of makiug loaus on spurious titles. From one broker he got $3.500, and from McCord 8300 on a second morteage. The property on which he operated was a truct “of twewty-five neres out near Englewood. He hunted around untit ke found some land where there bad been but three couvesances,—by the General Government 1o the State, the State to the Canal Commi sioners, and the Canal Commissioners to a New Yorker by the name of Green, I think, who bad hela theland since 1536, but had died in 1805, leaving surviving him two daugnters aud ouce son. Suydam saw that taxes hud not been paid on the land for some little time, looked up the title. went down to Albany, and took before Nettleton, the United States Comuis- sioner there, & couple of women and a man to personate the daughters and son of Mr. Greene. On_this foreed title he obtained the sum of $!('X)D which I have mentioned.” Wen asked about Gibbs' individual transac- tlon, =ud the Green vroperty, Suydam said the former was eugineered wholly W. R. Gra- ham, and nhe him: kuew nothing at all about it. . He deuied baving gotten auy money for the Green land. saying_tiat he knew nothing about it,—was not acquainted with McCord. With regard to Jobn E. Tims, the Point Pleas- ant, West Virginie, lawyer, whose name was tuentioned yesterday, both Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Warner speak in the bighest terms of him. Ar. Mendel, 1 bis interview. seemed to entertain a Door opinion of him, but the others spoke of hit in the bighest terms for competency and trustworthiness. THE HEATED TERM. Experience of a Sunstruck Man in the Search of Hemedfes. p New York World. Yesterday morning, whilea reporter of the World sat at a desk gathering tomether a quan- tity of papers which a delightful zust of wind had scattered about, 2 tatl, paltid man stagwer- ed into the room, and, dropping into a chair be- side the reporter, asked, fna voice which was a little more than a busky whisper: “ Mister, are yon one of them newspaper \rit- erst” “Yes,” was the answer. “Iwish you'd tell me if 1'm sunstruck.” The reporter said that he was mot an expert in suvstroke, aud suggested that the man should visit a doctor. “Blank the dotors,” angrily exclaimed the man, * and blank everybody. The doctors disa- gree about everything, and 8o does the peoplo. Inotice that ginrally when three or four news- pavers gives the newsabout a fire ora murder, or any thiu’ o’ that kind they most always publish accounts which is much alike, and so { believe they’re true. ‘That’s the reason I belicves newspaper fellers knows what they're talkin® about, and that’s the reason I ask you if I'm sunstruck.” . . “The reporter told the man that if he was sun- struck be would probably not be in 2 condition to feel much unXicty about his condition, and asked him what made him feel alarmed. - “Well, you sce,” gaidthe man, I ama “fakir’ by trade—tuat is, 1 peddle things about the strects, one day three linen hemstieh hankerchers for a quarter, uext day Japancse fauns, two for five cents, an’ t'other day a lirure of 2 man what rides a pilospede along a string, an’ soon. Now, yousee ihaveto bein tne street all the time, changin’ around a zood deal, and often staudin' in the sub. Last Thursday about 1oow it was orful hot, an’ I begin to feel light in my head. Iwent an’ ot a schooner o’ beer, and then [ oerin’to sweat so | watered the street. That weakezed me a good deal, and Iwent toasaloon and asked the barkceper what wasgood. e says, *You'd better look out or youll unstruck. Take some whisky and and don't never oo mo account © drink aby ice-water. TtYll lay you right out.” 1 tuk the whisky an’ lime-juice, an’ it braced me riebt up; but after calling out'my #oods a tew win- utes T had a awful headache. Then I got thirstier, and 1 ez to one o' the bovs, sez I, “What's the best tiing for a_fcller to drink?? and I told him about wy feelin’s.. *Don’t drink no more whisky,’ sez he, ‘only cold lemonade. Tut dou’t touch ice-water, it’s the worst thing 1 the world. T drank sonie lemouade, an? pooty 800n T ot 50 sick to_my stummick { thoueht 1'd fuint. I went and heaved up agin the door jam of a dairy, an’ one o' thc waiters he sez to e, sez be, ‘Feel sick?? Sez I, ¢Yes, I 4o, an’ 1 told bim about wy feeliw's. *You ousht uever to drink nothin’ but cool mitk th weather,” sez he. *Let beer an' whisky an' lemonade alone, an’, aboveall, don’t drink water- I's too great a shock to the stuwnmi So I went into the dairy an’ gota bowl o’ mil It didu’t seem to relieve the cifects of the other things, though, an' I rushed for a doctor shop. 1 told the doctor my feelin’s, and he sez, sez he. “The idea of mixin® beer, whisky, lemonade, and milk! You want to carry u little of my cholera imixture, and take twenty drops of it frequently through the day in a littie water, and don’t take nothin’ else. Them svmptoms what you et 1s the first symptoms of sunstroke, and, besides. [ sce by vour eyes you've ot slight sctual con- testin’ of the brain.’™ Active congestion of the brain,” suggested the repor “Well, it was something like that,” contin- ued the stranger. 1 touk a dose of his stufl, by jimmy, how it did burn,—put the bottle in 1y pocket, aud started off. Then I was hot inside an’ hot outside. I didu’t swear a bit, an’ my skin an? my stuounick fett as if they was full o pius aw’ needles. I got some lemon cream gody to kinder quench my thirst an’ act as a pouitice, but it didw't =tay down long enough to have avy effeck. I concluded I'd best go home. 1 went home, und the old woman what lets the lodgins sez, sez she, ‘Bless my soul, man alive! You Jook like you was going o drop. Are you sun-struck?’ 1 told Ter 1 felt as if T was struck with lichtnin’ on the head, an’ on the lower purt of my back with a ciub, an’ she sez. Sez she, ‘You want a of vrandy riebe awav; Til git good _drin F it for you, an’ you can o riwht to bed an’ keeh warm fo yowll swesl. After you take the brandy I'll fix you some iced Tea, an’ you must drink as much’o’ that us you can w stop the inward fever, But don't drink no water. 1 did all that s’ I didu’t sweat a bit. 1 lain awoke mostall vight an® crawled out the next day. Ev'rsbody what 1 spoke to_recommended different arinks, but all said, ‘Dow't for your life urink water.! Finally I sive up, bought a chunk o ice, stayed in my room, an’ chawed the ice, To-day I crawled out an’ came bere for advice. Mister, what shall I do?” i “The reporter asked the man what he ate dur- ing all viris time. ; “Eat? he exclaimed; I baven’t had three meals in three dave.? - The reporter then suggested to the man that if be would spenge bunsell oceasionally with ool water, drink nothing but cool water, taken in small quantiiies and frequently, eat li and nourishing food, wear. a light hat, read the World careiuily each morning, he would probably avod all evil effects frowa the Leat., A Texas Farmer. . Gatreston Netos. 4 Cant. Kennedy’s bastures in Nueces County now embrace 350 square wiles. His stock con- sists Of 45,000 head . of cattle,. 15.009 hesd of norses and mules, and 7,000 Lead ot ho; Mr. Kennedy's cattle are rapidiy being improved by breeding with the” Durbam and Bralima. Mr. Kennedy also owns a lsrze interest in tne Corpus Chrlsti. San -Diego & Rio Grande Rail- way, which is now cowpleted tojthe Precenos, forty-tive miles from the starting point. Engines and rolling-stock have been seut for to Letter equip the road. 1t 1s not calculated to run the road by San Dievo uuless the people subseribe $15,000, . CREAMERY BUTTER. A Horrid Doubt About This Use=- ful Article. An Allegation that It Is Mixed with leomargarine. Indignant Denials by tie Parties Imme- diately Concerned. To the Fditor of The Tribune. Cmcaco, Aug. 6.—"Tasaid ** A little knowledge 18 8 dangerous thing,* but I contend that absolute and complete information regarding any item of food which enters into doily consumption Is a mighty <ood thing; for instance, butzer. The writer has been using in his family for some time whnat is known and eold in market os ** Creamery Butter, " packed in nine-pound nails and command- ing a price several cents a pound above what i called **Choice Dairy Butter ™ in larger packaes, This creamery oatter wheu sampled with a buite tryer botn smells and tustes fre<h aud sweet, Hav- ing read an acticle on oleomarsarine, in woich di- rections were given for testing tie presence of olcomarzarme " in butter, the writer tricd the experiment on his fancy creamery butter, more. to prove to bis economiea) housewife the prudent reason for pa; e highest price to obtzin a pure articie, than with any anticipation of fincing oleomarzarine in it. Iie put a picce an iuch equare and half an inch thick on o butier-dish and placed it on the sill of anorth window, exposed to the airand light (ot in the sunshiné) for six tours.” The result wae a square lump of soft, white, foul-smellng tallow. The sume cxperiment hes sinee been tried with the best-known brands of creamery butter sold in Chicago with a ke result. o satisiy ourselves further, we made some butter from cream and subjected 1t 10 the same test. The result was, butter half melted down in the dish, not quite 38 sweet und fresh smelling as before the test, but stiil it was butter. The diferent partics who have gold uy the creamery butter have ap- Peured hionest and sincere when assuring us it was strictly pure butter. To them it looks weil apd sells readily, which are the main requiremente, It 13 8 fact that oleomargatine is old by the mallon uil througl the country, and enters largely info the miking 6 much of the so-called best hutter in marxet. Will Tus TRisuse interest 1tself in the subject with 11s usual thoroushnese, and please explain how pure butier can be distinguisbed from oleomargurine in the butter-tryer, ereatly. oblig- ing yours very respectfully, B &1, Au first the reporter was not fnclined to pay any: particular attention to this letter. He knew that olcomargarine was an oil made from animal fat, that it was as sweer and pure as lard, and just as good for cooking purposes os olive oil, that it could be so worked up with eream or milk as to make something which tasted like buiter, and that it was hurmiess to the stomach. For these rea- sons he was inclined to pay no atteution to the watter. If the creaweries chose to make a Mz~ tle extra money by putting in olcomargarine with their eream, it was 1o more bis affair than if the coffec-dealer mixed chicory with the Arabian berry. But then he reflected on the feelings aud the terrors of TUE MOUSEKEEPING WOMEN OF CHICAGO, their whitnsical ideas and their absurd notions on the subject of oleomargarime. He reflected it they were to find out ar any future period, as they probably would, that this oil was mixed with, their butter. and were also to find out that Tuxz TrisuNE kuew of it and did not publishit, there would be war fn the camp. Looking at the case from this point of view, he decided to investigate the matter, and to publish the re- suits Sundav morning, even thouzh the pub- lication should shroud 30,000 breakfast-iables with woe, and send 60,000 people butterless to church. He therefore went in search of the gentleman who bhad written the letter, and held sweet and greasy communion with him for the space of an bour or s0, getting much iufortnation in_ eddition to that contained in the letter, which fs substau- tially as fotlows, ziven by the paper not as thie truth, but as the slatement of a gentleman who claims to bave investieated the subject, aud who pbacked up his story by the production of little pats of stufl_which scemed somewhat like composed butter, chiefly vellowish, but covered widh a crust of something which bore close re- | semblance to tallow. HIs PURCHASES. He stated that he had purchased butter from Pardee, Mann, Wood & Co., aud an _agent fur he “Detaware County (lowa) Creamery.” These sampie were all sold to him as *“Creamery” butter. From Mann, Wood & Co. there were three samples. There was a wide difference in the results obtained from these samples. One resolved itsclf into a mixture of about two- thirds butter and one-third tallow. Another manufactured by Mann, Wood & Co,, at their own factory uear Elin in this State, was tinet- ured, he said, with about 5 per cent of tallow, AN 10WA CREAMERY widely advertises its product as having been the prize butter at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 187 When reduced to the out- door test, there wus found, according to this gentleman, to be about 20 per cent of oleomar- farine in it. One sample, obtained from Pardee’s procery- house, on State stret, was branded *Pardee.”” This was sold as best creamery butter at2§ cents a pound retail. It was less adulterated thau any of the others, With one exception, but had about 10 per cent of what ne believed to be tallow in it. To make assurance doubly sure, the gentle- man who engared in these experiments said he procured a quantity of cream aod had some but- 1er made from it at bis residence. This sample was exposed to the open afr alongside of the others. and did not change its character or show any of the indications of adulteration so readily traced in the otter samples. ‘'he gentleman interviewed wished it under- stood thiat hic was absolutelv certain that none of the firms selling this butter had the remotest idea that 1t was other than. what it purported to be. A reporter called unon MIt. GEORGE E. GOOCH, one of the leading commission merchants of the day, fu search of information upon only yesteraay,” sald Mr. Gooch, “that 1 first heard of this new imposition upon the butter-dealers. A gentleman showed me several samples of what purported o be creamery butter, but which, atter having been left out in the opeu air, resolved itseif into but- ter and oleomargarine.” “Did you examine the samples carefully?” “11was interested in the experiment, snd was, of course, anxious 1o know it it the factories were sending out un adulterated article of but- Lert u saw of the somol contained oleomargariug *+From what 3 you certain that th ooch, to corrohorate his statement, called in one of nis clerks who bad nasudled creamery hutter for several years. You saw the samples of butter that were left hiere yesterday by Mr. M. ¢ he asked of the clerk. “Yes,” wus the response. Te you sure there was oleomargurine in H v. I know there was.’ T'his is an unfortunate thing for the trade,” said Mr. Gooen. *1[ it onee becomes kuown abroad that we are exporting adulterated but- ter, the foreimn trade will be_ruined. It is u most short-sizhted policy, and I do not see_how the factory men coutd have wone intoit. They may make a little more mouey for a short time, but in the end they will lose, for the English 1l not take any more if they find out that Western butter is not straigit.” “Do you thiuk that tne practice of mixing oleomarzarine Wwith the butter is widely in- dulsred in * Doubtless there are not more than two or three factories as yet which have learned the trick. ¢ hoped that it will be exposed before it zoe: furtker. This kind of thing must be crushed out. The newspapers should take hold of it; publicity alone will put an end to the oractice.” The reporter went to the office of . 3ANN, WOOD & CO., ‘on South Water street, where the alleged objec- tionable samples of butter had been purchased. Mr. Barbour, one of the members of the tirm, expressed his astonishment at auy such charzes having been made agaiust their butter. T am willoe to put up 3500 or $1,000 that 10 oleowargarine has ever been found in our creamery butter,” said he. Toe reporter uarrated circumstantially the ex- peritments that had been made with the three brunds, and the resuits. 1 don’t believeit,” said Mr. Barbour: ‘‘we Know just where we wet all our butter, and it s simply nonsense to make any such charges.” +Thed you do not know aiivthing about the alleed miposition that hs been practiced u you by the maoufacturers.” -~ ** There bas beeu no jmposition: of that I am sure. Our vreamery butteris just what it js adverttsed to be, and vothing more nor less.” Duriug tbe afiernoon the reporter called upon 1. C. PARDEE, a leading dealer in family supplies, with a view of ascertainivg bow much oleownarzarine was retailed over tue counter s u substitute tor the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 11, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES real, genuine Orange County golden solid ex- tract of cowjuice. “1 have heard a_good deal about this patent butter,” saja Mr. Pardee, “*but I've not seen any, and | don’t beleve that any respectable creathery makes use of it.” “The story is,” ssid the reorter, “that a gentieman hére in the citv has fested some that was soid over the counter by a prominent erocery-house, and he found that fuily one- half of the so-called butter was composed of olcomargarive.*” ** Yes,” replied Mr. Pardee. “I've heard co. That young man Was in here, and had u taik with me, and _so little stock did I take in his scheme that I offered to bay half the exvenses and furnish the butter for a chemical analysis,” ‘What did he ssy to your proposition ' “ He was unwilling to ¥o intoit. I am satis- fied that no_reputable butter-factory uses the patent article, and so tnuch am 1 impressed with niy opmion teat 1 offered to bet him $100 to §10 that in any butter which I sell he can- net find a trace of oleomargarine.” “Did he accept your proposition?” w No, he did not. As I said beiare, I do not believe that it is used iu any respectable cream- ery.? With a view of discoverinc. if possible, some tangible facts relauve to the question, the re- vorter made a trip among THE BUTTER-HQUSES OF SOUTH WATER STREET. W. B. Ayres & Co. heard that on one or two oceasions lust winter, when butter was bring- a high price, some of the Elgn crorfes bad made use of oleomargarine. ‘This product was not pluced on sale lere but shipped East, the wost of it going to Boston. Oleomargaring can be produced for about 14 cents w the winter time, and affords a ool profit when compared with the prolits which common or medium grades of butter bring at that scason. June and July it 10t b cd to any advantage, as the lower wrades of butter can be sokd at a lower tigure. Y1 it ever used inthe finer graaes of but- ter!” “We think not; for the reason that its pres- ence is easily distinguishable. It turns into an oily grease at 2 temperature of about 100 de- srees, or animal heat, while geouine butter pre- Serves its consistency.” Churles Baltz thought that it was used by some of the manufscturers of skim-milk cheese. They use it to give that description of chicese a creamy appearance. ‘15 it used in the manufacture of butter?™ « T haye heard that it Was, but my opinion is that it is much ore used for the purpose I Yave indieated than for mixivg with creamery butter.” “ Are there any wmeans of detecting it *Oh, yes: the'expert butter-handler can de- tect it both by teste and feeling. And besides, it nielts into a greasy substance, which genuine butter never does.”” Curtis & Switzer were of the opinion that no reputable butter-maker would use it. They had Neard of its usc in u fow lnstances by some un- scrupulous factorymen; but at the present price of butter, and in view of the hot tem- perature, it could not come into competition Wwith the genuine article. W. F, Roos & Co. did not believe that it was nsed by any respectable butier-maker in the country. They had kuown of the oleomarza- Tine product being sold on the market last win- ter, and expeeted to sce it next scason. There was u factory here operated by the Turners, but they could not do anything until the winter wmonths. *]s it easily detected?” “Yes; an expert butter-buser can tell it at- most immediatelv. It is sweet, and a pood deal of 1t has been sold at prices a shade below those of the genuine article. But there is none of it iu the warket now. The weather s too hot.” Several other butter-houses on South Water strect expressed the same views, and the re- porter, satisfied that he bottown of the business, rei NO HARM. Assuming that the cresmeries do use oleo- and it is certain that some of them are buying 1t,—do put it in their butter, it cannot be said that_tbere is anvthing - illegal or injurious in it. It is simply a case, at the worst, ot getting more for their butter than tuey ourht to get. What thev av prescut sell for 25 cents a pound is, if mixed with oleomar- carine, uot worth that sum, and to that extent, from a moral thouzh mot from = business point of view, they are culpable. But the first thing for every lhousekeeper to do is to try the experiment for herself,—to take a little of the buiter which she is using, aud {o seu it after the fashion men- tioned above; visit it at the end of a few hoars, aod see the result. If what is so_used comes out unscathed, all right; il uot, then it is for lier to tind o way out of the dilemma. Itis probable that next week a person glancing up at the window-seats ou the north side of houses will find thewm lined with little plates, showing that the test is going ov. HOW HEMMINGWAY BECAME NOTORIOUS. Written for The Tribune. Hemmingway sat down in his accustomed chair at home the other evening, and, taking his pipe and newspaper, settled himself for a few nours of comfort. His wife sat busy with her needle, the baby slumbered peacefully in fts crib, and the dog on the rug at his fect. + John,” suddenly exclaitoed his wife, after thouehtful silence, **do you ever think of the cost of your everlasting smoking3?? * Here’s another failure,” e said, not noting her conundrum. * Who cares about failures? You’llnever have any money Lo wvest, £o failures will never con- cern you. IHow much money, 1 ask, do you suppose you spend in a year oa your nusty to- baceot™ . ¢ Assets, 525,000, “As Qts §25,000!" Heaven’s sake, $25,000! who—" “ Liabilitics. $40,000.” “ Liable to be $40,000,” she shricked, pausing in ber work and lookin a: the stuieal face of her husband; “and you sit there calmly and serepely and tell me that an odious habit may cost you $40,000 the coming year. Why, you could buy an elegant house furstied from sttic tovellar for that sum; the baby could wear diamona ear-rings, I could drive as nice a phacton as old Griges’ wife. 1 could sfford a camel’s-hair shawl and a vew bonnet trimmen with real lace; Fido could bhave a zoid collar, I could,~but never mind, John Hemmingway,”” —she jumped up, put her sewing down with gpiteful slam, and threw ou her shawi and nat. “What m the world is the matter, Janet!" looking up from his paper, 85 his wife's tirade was ipereased from the tone of a cracked clariofet to the volubili Chinese_goners “heen at the mu-bottle: don't see any blue ecls riding in on velocipedes, do you?” and Hem- mingway lly jaushed. “That’s right: laugb,—laugh, John Hem- mingway; smoke upa gold mine, chew up a brown-stone front, amd laugh. laugh, John Hemmingway; kill your wite' and child, and laugh!” Wiy, Janet, what is the trouble? Where are you going ¢ “To sy sister’s, you brute; her husband doesn’t sinoke; you needn't sit up for we; { shall not come liome till you are in bed and asleco; sit here and smoke until you look like a mwnmy with the biue cholera; tll vour tecth fall out and you et bald-headed; till you look likea moldy dourhnut on pegs,—sou poor, smserable specimen of insimificant and dilapr- dated humanity—ugch ! She went out. wi hop, skip, jump. and a John fell back in his cudir and waistled whistle; the baby turned uneasiiy in the i the doy smiled as bhe sut up zud ched his ear. “The nexe morning_Mrs, Hemmingway's sister told Mrs. Jones confidentially that Hemming- way smoked up $10,000 to $50,000 = year. Mrs. Jones told Mrs. Smith privately that Hemming- vay Vwernt wp 330,000 to 360,000 last y Mrs. Sotith told Mrs. Brown, iu the stric conti- dence, that Hemmingway set fire to property valued at from $60,009 to $70.000 last year; and £0 for once the rolling. stone mathered moss. About a week- afterward Hemmingway's bair stood on end as he perused the following item iu the daily: A Frmz-Fi she shouted; *for Why, it’s & fortune, —TEunmes Cluxe op s Prox- NENT CITZEN.—A most shocking piece of ruscality, which might have resulted in the serions loss of ‘life, las been brought to Tight throuzh the untinng energies und eagle tye of one of our reporiorial vafl. Last year M5, John Hemmingway. living at No. — Wabash avenue, bouglit u Louse vn the Sout Side, the ex- act locality of which the reporter was unable 1o Jearn, furmshed it sorgeously. and succeeded in insuring it for an amount $20.000 in excess of its zctual value. As Mr. Hemmingway is preseot Castier in tne National Savings-Bank, it can readily be inferred where all this splendor came from. and how 1t was obtaed. A this royal estate Mr. H 2nd his family, consfeting of u besutifol wife audan only child, lived uatit ouc mizht lust year the house was burned to the ground and ali the furniture was _destroyed. Mr. Hemmingway yue sa1d 10 be away from home, and his wife and clild berely escaped with their lives. . . . This £end in human form, it turne out, was “the incen- diary wao fired the house for the Burpose of secus- ingthe insurance. The compunfes paid the in- surance, and tae matier has been thought out little of, until lateiy it has leaked out to the repartorial ear, aud the sbeve. facts ascerisined. Hemming- way has thus far efudag. the grasp of _ the law, bat nodonbt he will sovn be tguring in the Criminal Cotizr.'~The sudacity of the fn, (o xtull resain his position s Cashier, and 1o be uble to whitawash the oficluls, shows What a hurdened criminal we bave m ourmidst. . . - - Hemmingwsy didn’t stop for breakfast; clutched his bat and started for the newspaper oftice. The editor was out, but the associnte was in, an ex-Columbia carsman: he dove at him tongue, tooth, and toe-nail, and was landed e, at the bottom of the editorial stairs for his pains, one eye gouzed out, four teeth in his stomach, and two ribs broken. He was taken home. Tue Directors of _ the bank met and discharzed him, and _then com- menced an investigation. Hemmingway eutered suit against” the newspaper | for damages, avd got cnoush out of it to buy a glass eve. The bank, *“ou account of the defaleation of its Cashier,” failed, and when he was able to wet out bis friends started o subseription to buy Mm some storc tecth. Hemmingway thinks by the way the subscriptions come in he shall have to buy one at a time. fle now ttotinabu- lates a tintinabularor on a West-Side car, but when he goes home his wife bas his pipe ready for him and lights the match. Sheisa changed woman. ~There is & moral to this story—we hope all wives see it. P A WELSH MURDER. Slaughter of an Entire Fomily Near New- port, in Monmouthshire. Landon Telegraph, July18. A terrible discovery was made at Llangibby, near Newport, Momnouthshire, yesterday moru- ing. On the previous daya lad bad been at work at the Llundowlais Farmn with u man named Watkius, a laborer, who bore an excel- lent character for hovesty aud tegrity. The oy went agrain 1o meet Watkins at the same place at an early Hour yestérday morning, and, findivg that he id not come to resume his lubor, he proceeded to his cottage. On ar- riving there a frightful spectacle presented itself. The body of -the unfortunmate man Watkins lay on the gurden path, his head being on a flower-bed. while the corpse of his wife was also lying near the gardengrate. The terrified boy at once ran 10 tell his mother what he had seen, and. she ac- companied him to the depot. Subsequently she informed Mr. Evans, of Cefulliveh Farm, af what had taken place, and the police were communicated with. In the meantime, how- ever, & man named Morgan, who was passing, saw the bodies Iying " the positions ulready indicated, and sscertained that Loth had had their throats cut. He then beeame aware that' 1he cottage was on fire. By means of lndder, Morgzan, assisted by a neixhboring farmer, re- moved the tiles and plaster from the roof, und, the smoke having cleared away to some extent. the two men entered the buildine. They found that the dwelling bad been ereatly disturbed. and on procceding up-stairs were horriffed at finding the bodies of three children, all quite dead. One was lving with her head between 2 box aud the bedstead, another under tie bed, Iying on its face, ana the third in the inner room. Their names were Charlotte, ased Fred- erick. aged 5, aud Alice, aged 4. Al three had been stabbed and hacked about with a knife, and all, especially the second child, were much burned. It seemed as it the eldest, who had wounds fn the back, must have one lo the window for the purpose of raising an alarm, when she was prevented from so doine by the murderers. ‘The wounds on the children were apparently more severe than those inilicted on their parents, and the opinion of the people who speedily assembled at the scene of the tragedy, including Maj. Herdert, the Chief Con- stable of the county, Supt. Mclntosh, Serst. Povall, Dr. Bolton, etc., was that Watkius had Deen first attacked and stunued witi a blunt strument, his throat being afterward cat white he was inscasible, and that Lis wife had becn killed in o similar_ manner. After rummaging the lower part of tae house, the miscreunts ¢ deutly went up-stairs for the purpose of plunder, aud, finding the children, dispatched them, setting the house on fire before makin good their eseape. The cottage is one of the kind usually oceu- pied by farm laporers. It is situated in its own warden by the side of the road, amd is a long way removed from any ottier dwelliug. The roows hiad been comfortably furnishea 1or per- sous in_the state of life occupied by the uniur- tunate deceased persons. he floor of one of the bedrooms was burned throuzh to what nad beeu the living-room below, winle the featters of the heds aud the clothes had been greatly scorched and siuged. It has not yet been ascer- tained what property had been taken from the house, nor hes auy clew yet been found to the discovery of the perpetrators ot these diaholieal murders, 1o fucts having as yet come to_ light t0 aid the police in their iuvestizutions. A man wearing 1 blue Guernsey had been seen on the road near the vlace, bt nothing furthier has been heard of him, and it is considered doubtfal whether ouc man vould bave committed the deed which has causea stch wide-soread horror throughout the district. It is likewise regarded as extremely improbable that Watkins could Dhave committed the murders and subsequently killed hitoselfl. HORREBLE. The Crime of Courtade. Xew York Sun. The Court of Assizes of Geers, in the south of France, has just held a murder trial of extraor- dinary fnterest. To the Village of Plaisance dweit M. Dulin, oceupytog the ground floor of his house, whose tirst story above he let to a tenant named Cour- tade, a man of violent temper, an ugly neirh- bor, and bad pay. Courtade was always in hot water with M. Dulin, who ut lJast gave him warpiog. Courtade refused to obey this notice to quit, brought suit instead- azaist his laud- lord, and persuaded the Justice of the Peace, the bailiff, Burgan, and the Recorder, Lasser: to visit the bouse, to make a personal exatuina- tion ot bis grounds of compluint. The party of five, consisting of the tenant, the lauulord, and the threc court officers, repaired to the house, under the leadership of the former, who, lea ing them in the yard, on some excuse, went into the house, from which be immediately reap- peared, armed with a couple of guns and a re- volver. “We are on the battle-ficld!" he shouted, « and here we must die. - These two,” pointing 10 the guns, “are for you, and this other for me? +See here!’! said the Justice, putting his hand on Courtade’s shoulder, *vou're not a child. Put down those thinus!” Courtade tucked one of the guns under his arm, brought Gown the other to an aim, and stretehed dead M. Dulin and the Justice. Droppi gun, he then fired one barrel of the other at the unlucky bailifl, the charge taking eifect in the sooulder, while he ptied the oud barrel into the rios of the Recorder, Lasserre, who had run some yards awas. With his re- volver Courtade next timished’ Burgan, who was bewging merey on -his Kuees! Kecorder, fatally hurt as he was, had crawied behind a tree on_the road. “ 8o you're hiding, —,”" eried Courtade, hs he walled up sud gave his shrinking v a shot. trom exch side of the tree. Then, holding hts revolver up, he said: “ You're all dead. Rest in peace! T'vetcot o gun left, for myself.’” :00lly walked b tthe house. he hapless widow of Dulin saw him con) and locked her door. Courtade approached with a ftiendly zesture. * I don’t want to Kill you,” be said; and w s This revolver on the window-sill, took aimn at the cowering woman, striking her in the left hip. Sne fell to the flaor upon her baby, whom she Tiad been holding in her arms, and whose wrap- vings were torn by the discharge. Courtade then entered by the window. ) the woman &id not stir, said: ** Goud enoug| You've got your pay; now. 'l take minc With that he rushed up-stairs to his chambel 1t this had happened in far less Wime than it takes to record, 50 that the poise ot the firing Tiad already bronght the police to the house. A jast shoc ‘was heard from Courtade's chamber as the gendarmes, breaking in his door, found him_stretehed, horribly wnangied and dreuched in blood, un his bed, having blown off 4 vart of his skuli with a guu so arranged that he could pull the triger with his foot. ‘The victims below were hurriedly examined. The_ landlord, the Justice, and the bailiil were dead; the Recorder almost at his last gasp—he survived a quarter of an hour, multerivg 8 few unintelligible words. But Mme. Dulin, saved by hier self-contral, Was alive—she aud her babe, Wwho was upharmed. Her wounds at last healed, and it was she who described this terrible scene of carnagze, when Courtade—who alsy, to the wonder of everybody, recovered—was tried for murder at Auch. - ; On the 11th of the present month this trial beean, before a vast audience. The Procureur- General, Diffre, came over {rom Agen to per- sonally conduct the prosecatiou, A distinzuish- ¢d advocate, Corrent, de Labadie, was_ evgared £0 aid the defense. The prasccution accounted for thie awfut crime by showing that Courtade had had from boyhood au ungovernable temuer. He served fu the urmy, sind “ou_his dischas ook & postion as gamekeeper, in which bis life was-ove-of- wlleness and _disorder. His wav- ‘warduess, inability to brook contradiction, and frizntful Japses mto rage territied eversbody. 115 haf solitary life in the woods fucreased bis ili-huior and his misaothropy. [fle was always talking of - killing sumebody, and turned kis apartments into & sort of urscnal, where he was forever _furbisbing and. practicing with his yeapons. Once, in afit'of anter, le took im at s own mother, but spared her. « If hie missed a shot ut an animal, he would fire the other barrel at a tree or into his hound. Still, he seems to have had a demoriac coolness 10 the massacre at;Plaisance, for Mme. Dulin de- seribed him as being perfectly calm while kill- ing his victims. - It further appeared in evidence that Courtade ad oiten threatened Dulin that he would * fix him,” aud that he would * settle™ the court oflicers. He said on one ocension that there Wouid soon be something for the Plaisance peo- ple to talk about, the like of which hadn’t been seen siace the erucitivions and if he couldn’t et justice from the court he would have it clsewhere. The detense accepted most of the prosceu- tiow’s theory, but pushed it into one of protec- tion. Courtade’s ‘ruge, they said, was the rage of 4 madman: he was the victim of uncon- trolluble fury, not a responsible being. It was also shown that Courtade had been subject to cpileptic fits, which presumably had affected his mind. Courtade himself was examined in court, according fo the French custom in wwurder trials, but with his horrible mutilation, which hiad carmied away part ol his jaw, hie spoke so unintelligibly that one of the jutlers, who hud made a special study of his broken | awrey was foreed 1o act as interoreter. =T At 6 o'clock on the evenmr of the 13th of July the jurs broughy in their verdict of guilty, and Courtade was condemued to death. JOHN J. AUDUBON. Reminiscences of the Great Ornithologist's Early Life in Henderson, Ky, IHenderson (Ku.) Revorter. As near as we can learn, Mr. Audubon moved to the Red Banks, or flendersou, about t 1510 or 1812, He married Miss Louiss Bakeweil, of Louisville, who bore him two sons. Mrs, Audubon and the two sons accompanied Mr. Audubon to his new pome, and they all lived here until about the year 182 or 1825, He was a Frenchman, and, possessed of ull tne energy, fire, and vim so characteristic of the French peo- ple. he soon embarked in tusiness. s first cnterprise was 1o open a erocery and dry-goods store in a ittle one-story loy house which stood upou the corner of Mainaud First strects. e lived with his fumily in a littie one-stery brick building just in the rear of where the 0dd-Fellows’ Building now stands. Just where the Post-Otlide is now located was u pond, in which he used to vatch one or more turtles every day, which he used in making into his favorite dish,—turtle soup. Shortly after this he operated a very farge corn aud flour mill at tne foot of Secoud street. This mill was of very large capncity for those fdayss i pact, it woilld be ressarded ns of very respevtable size these times. I this mill, upon the smooth surface of timbers, were to be found the most life-like paintings of birds, (owls, and animals of every deseription which inhabited this coun- try at that time. Mr. William T. Barret has now, it is sald, the first painting Audubon ever mude of the woodpecker. The bird is repre- fented as sitting upon the limb ot an old tree, and listening to the familiar call of its partuer, So perfect is the picture tHat persons have fre- yuently wistaken it for u genuine stufled bird. While Mr. Aucubon was engaged n the mill- ing business. it was his custum to bathe in the Obio. This he continued until he became the most noted of all the swimmers who mdulged in that deligntiul pastime. It is said of him that when the first steamnbout landed at the town some of her muchinery hud become disar- raaged, and the boat bad to remain here for sev- cral hiotirs makin necessary repsirs. s wight be expected upon so extraordinary oceasion ns this, the veopls turned out en masse to see something new ander the sun—tie steamboat A number of country visitors imagined the thiog had life {n it.” Mr. Audubon aud other citizens were umong - the visitors, ana during the time they weie on board concluded th would indulge in their favorite amusement— swimming. They uodressed and began to dive from the side of the ves: Several members of the swimming party m: successful dives from the inside of the vessel uext to the bank. comiog up o the outride. ‘vhis was regarded as wonderful. Mr. Awitnon walked to the bow of the boat, sprang into the viver, and, after sume time bad clapsed, made his uppearance below the stern, havinr gone ciean under from one end to the other. This feat was rezarded by 21l who witnessed it as a most remarkable and dateerous undertakis und he was awarded the greatest praisc Lor U unequaled performance. It 1s said he did thi several tunes dunug tae time the boat Juv at the bank. Mrs. Audubon was siso a great Mr. II. E. Rouse told us that he had frequentiy her o into the river at the foot of ¥irst street and swim to the Indiana shore. She dressed fuarezular swimmine costume, and was regarded by all who knew her a5 the next best to aer husband. if not nis cqual. During Mr. Audubon’s life in_ Henderson, he pursued the study of orpithologs, ircyuently golng to the wouds and remaining there for two or three months at a visit. Upon voe occasion he followed 2 bawk, peeuliar o this countrr, aud, 50 anzious was he to become the possessor of the bird, e pursued it for two or three days, finally succeeding in kiting He was uever kuown to stop for streamsof zny kind: oe would swim rivers or cre in parsuit of any game or bird he mihy be f search of. At ont time he watched a flicker, or wbat is commonly koownasa vellow-tammer, until he saw it go ia a bole at the top of an old tree. He immedi- ately climbed the tree, and, running his band in the hole to get the bird, caught hold of a huge black snake. Pullingit out of the hole, and seving what it was, he immediately let vo, aua he and the sneke both fell to the ground. Mir. Audubou used to tell this story, with a good deal of humeor, to the muny who often wondered { at the grear risk ne would tuke fn pursui of this ereat seudy. 4 Atter living in Henderson until about the year 1522 or 1323, he became, from some canse, Jealous of his ife, who is represented us havinz been o very beautiful woman, ey ot alon badly, aud she finally concluded to 2o to her forwier_home, Louisville, to which place she waus driven overlund fu t¢ corriage of Benjanun Talbott, by Is colored driver. Mr. Audubon became umbarrassed in his husineds matters, and coneluded to move from Henderson to new locality, Which he did some tune ufter- ward. We have in this community several wentlemen who knew Mr. Aubudon well, and who cau tell & great deal of bis bistory while living here. —_—— HUMOR. The defaulting cashier’s motto—.Non est-y is tie best poticy—Luck. By this time the | * Let me kick him for his motor,” is what the disappointed stocknolders now say about Keely, Why does perspiration take the starch out of your suirt! Because it’s sweat.—Phiade'phia Bulietin. ¢ Constituency thou art a jewel!” as the can- didate remarked to the convention that nomi- nated him. It having been stated that none of the boat- meu can pull a sunstroke, it is suggested that #That depends upon the scall.” A hundred years beuce the newspapers of Cen- tral Africa will besiu to record toe finding of wurtles inscrived * L. M. 8., 1576.”" osted up in a Wisconsin sawmils Lhe Saws are running touch them to couvinee yourselves.” ites to sk “if old Horeas ever had " Certamly, didn't_you ever read - Merry Wives'of Wind-sir¢'— W hite- John any wive about the had Times. Mi dear friend, az strapgze az it may seem to U, wankind lud rather sece v fail than sue- cecd. be! ¢ they had ratber pity than adwire. —Jush Bitings. There is somethinz solemn in the tones of a great bell striking miduight, especially if you are a mile from home and koow that your wife is sitting bebind tue hull-door waiting for you. ¥es,” she said, * ['m very food of little and, a3 she tripped on a steine stretehed pavement, she wdde Teel as though L could eat a couple of e this minute, Two lawyers, while bathing at Santa Cruz the other dav, Wwere chased uut of the water by ashark. This is the most fagrant case of want of professional courtesy oo record.—San Fran- ciscu 405 St. Louis has carefully preserved the vames | of - thost citizens who died uf sunstroke. She doesn’t propose puildis a wouwment over thewm, bat their names will appear, as usual, iu next year’s directors.—Chronize-lerald. A mummoth zhost, robed in blue and scarlet, appeared on_the western Sky lust cveninz in Greenville. Do these apparitions resuit from too mauch fee-water ~Conunercia’ Gazelte. Yed, sirs -4t isa clear case of colorin’-phantow.~— Graphic: ol Aun ‘aporeciative mind can throw a world of patlios iuto a very ordinary stateraent. - Yes.”” saud shic, leaning over the "fence, in communion with a nefebbor, “she is dead. She died just 95 sbe had oot torn up te deas bouse. It is ternble.—Danoury News, g At twilizht the otler eveninz a thirsty «itize: eatered s uew restacrant on Gradot evenue aud juquired tor iced tea. He was handeda glads of Tiquid | whicls - tasted lke tea, but was almost: wirm enough for the table. “I ingufted for ived. tes,” bie said as -he put down the eiass. And you've got it,” was the reply. Do you call this tea cold? 7 indiggantly exclaimed the citizen. The man tasted, smacked his lips azd tasted agais, and said: «**Well, it isn't very cold, but I can’t afford to fce my tea every Gifteen minutes, can 17 T melted up at least ten paunds of we and poured into that jar 4t nuon, T:z“.: d(l‘.m’tmszo \lh:l! ails it. Stand back amd a e {in the tumble: i v L= IRy mbler With my bat."’— Uetrot Lizhtniuz came very near killing a tree agent in ‘thls State one Uay last, week 1t it i tiree times, and if it-had wot another. wuod wrhack at hum would hase fetched hu, sure. But by that time the avent suspocted whit was thie matter, and got away.— Burdete, The other day, as two newls arrised Irishmen were walking up Kearney street, 3 pavement trag-door vpened aud a Chinese store-porter emenged. “Be worra!™ said unc of the Pad- dies, “~-if the haytiens haven’t wuva tupnel clane thro’ fron:Chinee, bad luck to thim! P San Fraucisco News-Letter., IRISH HUMOR. Some Newly-Told Stories. English Mugazine. The first Viscount Guillamore, when Chief Baron O’tirady, was. remarkable for lus dry Tntmor and biting wit. ‘The latter was s¢ fine thut its sarcasm was often unperceived by the wvbject agaiust whow the A legul y us, but in con- tivn notorivusly dult, was once stiowing offt to Lim bis newly-buiit house. ‘The book-worm pricea bimsell especiatly on 2 sanctum be bad contrived for his 0w use, so secluded from the rest of the buildine thst he couhl pore over kis in private gite seeure from disturbance. Canttal” exclaimed the Chief Baron. ~You surely could, my dear fellow, read and study here from worni 1i ntzht, aud uo huinan be- ing be one bit the wWiser.” A younand somewhat dull tyro at the Bar line betore him commenced Lord, client"—then stopped, hemmed, d. Awn he vegan: - My Lord, L untortuuate cliens "—another stop, i confusiol “ Pray o ou, sir,”” said the Chief Baron. “So far the Court is with you.” _Juthose days, before competitive examina- tions were Kuown, men with more interest than bruins zot gowd appoiutnients, for the duties for witien they were' wholly incompetent. Of such was the Flou. ——. He was elling Lora Guillamore of the summary wag in which he disposed of atters in his court. - wa that are botberi _arguments, that . there’s 1o use in time and thelrsbreath. for that all < Just coes i ar aod out at the othier.” : o ereat wonder in that,” suid O’Grady, thut there's so httle between to stop z at a public din- wot his place, bad bis health wagerish guest. T will give you a toast,” nesaid: *The Hon. —, and lonz may he continue indifferently to er justice.”” At the diuner-table, over the wine, Lard Guillaniore was u torce, and tals is one of the ctl with great aoplause, It nich he asserted lie nad heard he old ¢ between the wuant of the mail snd a ni old iady, when onee travetiny from Curk to Dubtin: ‘e coach had stopped to change horses, and the guard, a bie, red-faced, jolly man, beaminze with grood humor and civility, ¢ bustling sp to the window to sec it the “iusides™ wanted anvthine. Gusrd,” whispered the ofd lady. Weil, ma'am, wiat cau 1 doudor you?” “ Couid you—in a fumt voice—*=could you et me a glass of water?” “'v|'u be sure, wa’um; with ull the pleasure in life.” "—still fainter—* 1'd—hem— + Wizur, mard, f sou please.’ + By all manuer of means, maans.” to o uwav,—tu squeeze of Tenion, und a fittle, just thimbletul—o: spirits through " & *+ Och, isn't that puuen?” shouted the smard. #Wrere was the use of beatiug about the bush Couldw’t you have asked out 1or s tumbler of Duben at once, ma’am, hie o wan.? G \ story somethung fike the whowing has been told betore, butin its wew shape 1 wik, bear repetition. ft was toid by 3w, I, Clerk of Crown for Limerick, who was over six feet L und stout in proportion: One way, when driving In the outskirts of Dublin, they came to o long and steep bilts Cubby came down, ana, walzing alongsice tie . looked signiticamtly in at the window. His Honor koew v well wiat be but tne day was Bot mmd he wus and fat, and had to votion of taking the and 12 out to ease the norse wlile Ianting nsell. A last Padiy change i a rush at the he sud- denly upened tie dyor and then stanundd it to with a tremendous ba **What's that for! " roared Mr. F., startled as the man’s violenee and the Joud report. = Whist, ver Honor! Don’t say a webt*» whispered Paddy, patting his finger to his ke “*But what 4o you mcau, sirrali!" cried the Arrah, ean’t ve hush, sir! Spake low.—now, do. Suare 'tis letting on 1 am to the. lictle mare that ver Hovor's got to walk. Dun't let her bear vou, amd the craythur’ll nave more the hill if she thinks you're nos , amd that *tis only the cab that’s throub- her.” m R.wasone of the most decorous of o but was cursed with a ace of a brother, who was a perpetual thorn in his shile. When at School he was set a suiz to do by his . After an undue delay he presented himsell befure the desk, and held up his slate, upon oue corner of which vas a pile of coppers. **\What is the incaning of all this, sirt™ said the master. “OnY cried the vouth, *I'm very sorcy sir, but I reaily can’t belp it. Al the morng I've heen working at the sum. Over and over arain t've tried, but in spite of all [ can do it will not come rizht. So ve made up the differ- ence in half-pence, and there it 1s on the slate.” ‘I'ne crizinality of tbe device disarmed the wrath of the pedazogue, and young R. was dis- wissed with bis copoers to his olace. Here, however, is one of the best kind told of Mr. Plunket, the fatherof the Lord Chancviior: One morntog Mr. Plunket, taking su eariy walk, was overtaken by two respectable-lookinz " arpenters appareutly by trude, each cur- rying the implements of bis crade. **Good mourning, my triends,” sald the olit genticman; *you are carly atoot. Golug on 4 Tob, eh e “Good morrow, kindly, sir; yes, we are; and a quare job, too. The quarest and tbe most Ut of the Wy you ever licard of. Pil be bound, though you have lived long in the world and heard apd read of many a thinz. On, you'll never guess it, your honor, so I may as well at ouce. We're going to cut the legs off a dead man.” **What!" cried his hearer, agfiast, “ yon don’t mean- “Yes, indeed, "tis true for me; ana here's how it come about. Poor Mary Neil’s husband —u carpenter like ourscives aud an old comrade —has been sick all the winter, and departed tife fast Tuesday. Wiat wich the rief and the being left on the wide world with her five orplians, and no one Lo ears bit or sup for them, the craythur is fairly out of her mind,—stupi from the erving and the fret, for what does she do, voor woman, but send the wronz measure for the collin, and when it come home it wus ever so much too shori. Bamev Neil was u tall man, nigh s feet we reckoned hitn. Ile could’t be eot futo It, do what they would, and the poer cravibur badn’t what would bay anvther. Where would she wet it, after the long sickness himsell had, and with five cnildher to feed and clothe s So, Your bonor, ali that’s in it is 1o cub the leirs off in. Me aod my comrade here is going to do it for the desolate woman. We'll just take ’en off at tie kuee joints and lay 'em ilonzside ot him in the coffin. 1 think, sir, now I've tolgl you our job, you'll say "ts tne quarest ever you Leard of.” <O cried the old sentleman, “such a thing must pot be done. It’s fnpossible! How el would 2 new coflin cost” % The carpenter numed the sum, which was jm- mediately produced und bestowed un him witl injunctions 1o invest forthwith in the necessary purchase. { "Il business, however, took quite au unex- pected turn. Mr. Plunket, on bis return home, rélazed his matutinal adventure to s Samily at breakfast, the tucure Chancellor, then'a youns hargiater, being at the table. - Before the mesl was goded the carpenters made thelg appear. ance, und, with many zpoiogies. tendered Lack the cofifthey had received. He who bad becu spokesmim f-the mornini exphioea thut, oo secin toe Zentleman in advaoce of them on ine o, bie had, fyr a Jagk, wade 2 ber with his compaition that be_would obtain the wmoney, which, baving wolitly wagzer, be now refunded. B ek A 1 Johu and tie Moodlumb. Inledo Hiade. 1t was, doubtless, Kedrary, the great * Labor Reformer,” who was the'liero of tle followinz 1roe sto Atter one ofvthe Kearvey riots in. ,San Franciseo, a_Chinese ‘washerman was ob- “served sittiog disconsolate o the rains of his duausy. To bun a passer-by: £ 1 * *tHow about your wash-himse, John1" +* Washee house wope helleeI” - ‘“‘How abont the hdodlums i “Dlam hoodlum! Got clean shirtee first time in lifee” i {